It’s just wild, this big, hulking Toyota Tundra. It’s a truck that leads at least three lives – by day, it hauls the hogs and the hay, the groceries and the grills. In the evening, it dons its leather “1794” livery, with the hot and cold running seats, and heads for the Stockman’s Ball. Its […]
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We’ve seen the prices of collector cars go through the roof recently — $38 million paid at auction during Monterey Motor Week for a Ferrari 250GTO (another one sold privately last year for about $52 million). But what about motorcycles? Surely, there are some gems out there. Well, yes, there are. Brough Superiors and Vincent […]
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Maybe it’s time Infiniti got some respect. Sure, it gets respect in some of the car journals, and the Car Guys know Infiniti and nod sagely when it comes up in conversation. But by and large, Lexus is still the leader in the world of upscale Asian cars. Too bad. I just spent a week with an […]
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Just because the Pebble Beach concours is in the rear view mirror doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the end of concours season in California. A few weeks ago, Danville, the East Bay suburb of San Francisco and home, incidentally, of the Blackhawk Museum, one of the better car museums in the country, held its own concours […]
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A week after teasing the Internet with a cryptic tweet about unveiling “the D,” Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk on Thursday night finally explained what he meant, debuting a new, dual-motor version of the Model S sedan with all-wheel drive. At an event in Los Angeles County, Musk said the improvements — offered as an […]
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The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee is an anomaly. Here is a big, two-and-a-half ton SUV, a brawny, muscle-bound car with A-pillars thicker than a wrestler’s arm and a step up into the cabin that would challenge acrobats. It’s a no-nonsense truck. But it’s also a dainty fuel-sipper. At least, the turbocharged V6 EcoDiesel is a […]
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At first blush, it may not look like it, but this weekend’s classic sports car racing at Sonoma Raceway is designed to appeal as much to children as it does to grown-up children. The Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG), which organizes this event, calls the race weekend the “Charity Challenge” – over the past nine […]
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Such is the celebrity of Elon Musk that the Tesla Motors CEO can get the Internet buzzing by saying a single letter. Or in this case, tweeting it. Late Wednesday, Musk posted a cryptic tweet suggesting that the electric automaker would make a product announcement — or possibly two — on Oct. 9. About time […]
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